Tell a friend about this book...

In GATEWAY Pohl weaves greed and danger, adventure and sex into an unforgettable tapestry of the future. The Heechee gateway (the artifact of a long-dead and vastly superior civilization) had been abandoned thousands of years before man found the artificial asteroid in the vicinity of Venus. Left behind are almost a thousand Heechee starships, p... more »rogrammed for faster-than-light travel to distant parts of the universe. But the traveller can never know his destination. A successful journey can mean immense wealth, but all too often the only reward is death.« less